Joseph Had A Little Overcoat
by Taback, Simms
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670878553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670878550
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: Viking, 1999. 1st thus. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Simms Taback. Hardcover, first printing with all numbers present, no medal sticker on front of dust jacket. Color illustrations by Taback. Winner of the 2000 Caldecott Award. Clean, unmarked copy with a bright, unclipped dust jacket with the die-cut holes.Joseph begins the story with a little overcoat but when it gets old & shabby he cuts it down into a jacket. The bright and delightful artwork is done in watercolor, gouache, pencil, ink & collage and aided by die-cuts throughout. Taback did a book about this song in 1976 and re-illustrates it here. Record # 202735
Synopsis
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat is the title of a 1999 book by Simms Taback that won the 2000 Caldecott Medal. The main character is Joseph, a 40-something Jewish farmer, who has a little striped overcoat. When it is old, Joseph makes it into a little jacket and so on until he makes it into a button. Then Joseph loses the button and makes a story out of it. The moral of the story is "you can always make something out of nothing.
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202735
- Title
- Joseph Had A Little Overcoat
- Author
- Taback, Simms
- Illustrator
- Simms Taback
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st thus
- ISBN 10
- 0670878553
- ISBN 13
- 9780670878550
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Childrens, Illustrated, Simms Taback, .
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